Humphrey Waldock
Sir Claud Humphrey Meredith Waldock ( born August 13, 1904 in Colombo, Sri Lanka; † August 15, 1981 in The Hague) was a British lawyer.
Humphrey Waldock, son of Fredrick William Waldock, attended Uppingham School and Brasenose College. In 1927, he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a year later he received the Bachelor of Civil Law. In 1934 he married Ethel Beatrice Williams, who bore him a son and a daughter.
The 1947, Waldock the Chichele Chair of International Law at the University of Oxford. From 1955 to 1974 he edited the "British Year Book of Law ". He was in 1966 elected judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Two years later he became vice-president and appointed successor of Henri Rolin 1971 for the president. At Oxford he became Professor Emeritus in 1972, he was followed here, the New Zealand lawyer Daniel Patrick O'Connell. His commitment to the ECHR ended in 1974, after he had taken over a year before the judge post on the International Court of Justice. From 1979 to 1981 he was this Court as president.
Humphrey Waldock was from 1978 an honorary member of the American Society of International Law. He died in 1981 at the age of 77 years due to a heart attack.
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- Who's Who in Oxfordshire. London 1936
- International Biographical Archive 50/1981 of November 30, 1981
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- Judge (European Court of Human Rights)
- Richter ( International Court of The Hague)
- Honorary Member of the American Society of International Law
- Briton
- Person (Colombo )
- Born in 1904
- Died in 1981